Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-09-21

DAKOTA NEWS.


Gently.
The Beadls county fair was held u
Huron.
The tax levy in Bon Homme co unity 10
IS mills.
Fargo is to have the free delivery
postal system.
--Mellette is getting 70 be = big wheat
shipping point.
Spencer is one Of the prosperous towns
Of McCook county.
Corn is ripe and the crop first class in
the region Of Huron.
Work is progressing slowly on the in-
sane asylum at jamestown.
Large quantities Of wheat are being
marketed in Brown county.
Wheat around Westport is averaging
about twenty fve bushels psr acre.
Brown county claims to have raised
$500, 900 bushels Of wheat this ysss.
|a.ssaR RsEa sliebt -
the Putney Messenger u BroSn connty.
lin his division speeches Gen. Hugh J.
Campbell pitches again into ex- Gov. Or
day.
Rev. Father Hair is editing new
paper at Aberdeen, the Catholic Aver
ican.
Three horses belonging to Mrs. Frank
Dries, OF vermillion, were killed BY light
ming.
Passenger trains on the Minneapolis
and Pacific railway are now running into
Oaks.
James McNear, q breakman on the
Northern Pacific, WIS run over by the train
and killed near Dickenson.
Gov. Church thinks he cannot organ
ize Church and Pierce counties on account
Of an imperfection in the law.
Col. Jumper, of Aberdeen, will servo
on the staff of Gen. Fairchild at the sham
battle at the Minnesota state fair.
Tho report is again received that ex-
Gov. Pierce is to be placed at the head OF
the state university at Grand Forks
The st. P ul Globes interview with
NJ. H. Day is to the effect that he 10 not
opposing Cleveland's denomination.
1t is reported that Col. Plummer will
60 to Oakes to take charge Of new paper
there to be started by Ellis and Brown.
Huron is jubilant over its prospect Of
getting cheaper coal by way Of the Mani
toba railroad now building TO that city.
-Groton shipped last year l.0O0, 900
bushels Of wheat, and expects to ship
double that amount this year. There arc
six elevators there.
The Wakonda, Clay county, Inde-
pendent has been moved to Centreville,
and the material will be used in issu ng
the Cen,reville journal.
Judge Spencer has not yet decided
what place in Dakota will become his resi-
dence. He was appointed judge Of the
Fifth central Dakota) district last winter.
John B. Finch, chairman Of the ma
tional prob bition committee, who once
said he thanked God he never vas 5 se.s
puhIies~. apsakA ~ sSs~... -xs<zna
| day.
H. A. Jerauld, Of Lincoln county, has
| gone TO California to reside. Mr.. Jerauld
was quite conspicuous figure in the legis-
lature when the capital commission bill
was passed.
The Huron Times denies that there II
any jealousy between the Northwestern and
the Manitoba at Huron. It says cross
! ing of the two roads will be effected With
out any difficulty.
Commissioners Mcclure says over 4.
| 236 miles Of railroad were built in Dakota
last year, which is more than either Ne
braska, Nevada, Delaware, Rhode Island,
West Virginia and half the south,rn states
have got.
1t is said Gov. Church has admitted
that he acted too hastily in deposin2 Cols.
Webb and Brown at Huron. The governor
knows how it is himself--the effect Of look.
ing upon tho wine when il is red or any
other color. The temptat on is strong.
"A correspondent interviewed Van Tas-
sci, ofthe insane asylum board, who init
| mated that il he would let new man BE-
appointed in his place. Gov. Church would
approve the plans and let the asylum ex-
tension 60 on. He added that he would
see the governor in the internal regions
before he would resign with the charges Of
corruption hanging over him.
The territorial tax OF Dakota, accord.
ing to the levy. will amount to about e420,-
600. This will be used TO defray the ex-
pense Of the territorial government, and
yet there are some administration organs
that tell the farmers that il Is for their in
terest to have Dakota remain . territory,
because the United States government
pays now all the expense Of the territoral
government.
According to General Hugh Camp
BELLS latest speech Ohio was kept terri-
tory five years. Indiana fourteen yeass,
Kentucky ons year, Tennessee six years,
Missouri nine years, Iowa nine yean, Wis
consin one year, Minnesota eleven years,
Nebraska five years, aud an average time
for which territory has been held % such
has been seven years. Dakota has been !
territory for thirty years and tho chsnces
for admission at the next congress are mot
excellent.
The annual meeting OF the w. G. +.
U. was held at Huton. It was the largest
and most successful temperance g,thering
ever held in the territory. Nearly 200 del.
egates from all parts Of Dakota. and many
prominent w. C. T. U. workers from sast-
ern states were present Mrs. 0faham. OF
jamestown, and Mrs. MeCarlin. Of Huron,
were chosen delegates to the mt onal oon.
vention at Nashville. in October. Mr..
Barker. Of Chamberlain. the president ~
NAMED in Huron : few days 70 confer With
the executive committee and perfect plans
we're passed asking tho prohibilion party
TO favor woman suffrage n their salions
conventions, urging tho rigid snfotesmsnt
Of the Sabbath desscration Laws: dsploeia9